[youtube] nsig extraction failed: You may experience throttling for some formats

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I assume that this is a new player as I could not find a reference to it in the repo. Receive WARNING: [youtube] nsig extraction failed: You may experience throttling for some formats for all actions against the affected video.

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Run your yt-dlp command with -vU flag added (yt-dlp -vU <your command line>)
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I meant to include this properly but the entire js player is output to the log, so Github tells me "There was an error creating your issue: body is too long (maximum is 65536 characters)."

Please forgive me, here is a pastebin link instead: https://pastebin.com/62j1x2yd

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pukkandancommented, Aug 13, 2022

I’ll make a proper release when I can. Meanwhile, here’s a build: https://github.com/pukkandan/yt-dlp-dev/releases/tag/2022.08.13.235132

Do test it out and let me know (with log) if there are any signatures that still fail

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nicolaasjancommented, Sep 2, 2022

There seems to be a new player 5a3b6271 and it looks like PhantomJS did it’s job (?):


[debug] Saving youtube-nsig.5a3b6271 to cache
WARNING: [youtube] isC8DbsvS8A: Native nsig extraction failed: Trying with PhantomJS
         n = B2j7f_UPT4rfje85Lu_e ; player = https://www.youtube.com/s/player/5a3b6271/player_ias.vflset/en_US/base.js
[debug] [youtube] Signature function returned an exception; please report this issue on  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using  yt-dlp -U
[youtube] isC8DbsvS8A: Executing signature code
[debug] [youtube] PhantomJS command line: phantomjs --ssl-protocol=any /tmp/tmpu202x950
[debug] [youtube] Decrypted nsig B2j7f_UPT4rfje85Lu_e => m5DmNymaGQ5RdQ

Tested with video isC8DbsvS8A.

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